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September 17, 2025 at 6:20 pm #1943870

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I’m part way through listening to the Horus Heresy. Currently on A Thousand Sons – which I read before but remember so little.

I’m enjoying the name drops in the book: Ahriman berating one of his fellow Astartes for a vulgar display of power; and elsewhere a symphony of destruction 🤘

Anyone else spotted Easter eggs in the fluff?

September 18, 2025 at 8:13 am #1943887

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I’ve read some of the books but (as you might have guessed) in German. Didn’t pick up anything like that on the first read. Odd. XD

September 18, 2025 at 9:41 am #1943889

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It’s so long since I read this one I probably chuckled at Vulgar Display of Power, forgot about it, chuckled at Symphony of Destruction, got on with my life and so on.

Now I think about it there’s a lacerated sky, raining blood somewhere in the GW canon.

September 20, 2025 at 2:18 pm #1944186

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Great writer; I still haven’t got through his Ultramarines series, which is ancient by now. My memory of the Horus Heresy is sketchy at best, stopping at the first Vulkan book. Great lore sesh, didn’t notice them first time round but I’ve been stashing all the rest of the series; I must re-read.

September 21, 2025 at 11:55 am #1944225

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I had bad memories of GW’s books but couldn’t resist A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns when I saw they existed. This series has a couple of duds but it’s such a step up from the older fiction. I’m on a full binge now, will keep an eye out for more metal.
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